We are grateful that my predecessor took the right initiative – ObasekiOkomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.

PNG land grabbers could potentially face International Criminal CourtReport finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.

Hypocrisy and friends in high places in the Republic of CongoEarthsight report exposes the secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture which are threatening the Congo Basin’s forests. This post details findings from The Republic of Congo.

In India, Karuturi is being accused of sexual harassment while in Africa his struggling flower business in Kenya and Ethiopia has withered – first over tax arrears and debts and later over land deals gone wrong.

The PRI’s webinar Planting the seeds of change: managing social issues in land investing explores why investors should consider land issues and learn about the Reference Guide for Risk Assessment in relation to land.

Authorities in Cambodia’s Kratie province on Thursday opened fire on a group of people protesting over a long-running land dispute with a rubber plantation, killing as many as eight people and injuring dozens of others.

Officials from 24 Latin American and Caribbean states have signed a legally binding treaty containing measures to protect land defenders, almost two years to the day since environmental leader Berta Cáceres was killed in her home in Honduras.

Contamination of water sources, deplorable working conditions, and sexual blackmail in exchange for work, are some of the kinds of violence against women living in and around oil palm plantations in Guatemala and Colombia.

India’s programme to compensate for the destruction of forests for development projects is routinely setting up monoculture tree plantations on community commons. Women, who are mostly affected, are at the centre of its resistance.

From rapes, forced body searches and searches of private spaces, to the risk of losing their lives: this article calls on us not to be accomplices to the violence women living around industrial tree plantations in Cameroon suffer.